Rubin speaks with media about rising gas prices
Johnathan Rubin, professor of economics at the University of Maine and director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center, spoke with CentralMaine.com and News Center Maine about the rising price of gasoline. Rubin said, “Some of this rise in the price of crude oil is really due to the economic recovery in the United States and the rest of the world as we come out of COVID, which had artificially dampened the demand for transportation as people stayed home. Then, of course, the war tensions on top of that. It’s a combination of all those factors.”